Siena

Siena is a city in Tuscany, Italy. Siena was one of many Tuscan hill towns to be founded by the Etruscans, and it was known as "Saena Julia" under the Roman Empire; its name came from either the barbaric Senones or Remus' son Senius. In 1125, the Republic of Siena gained its independence from the March of Tuscany, and it had 50,000 people before the outbreak of the Black Death in 1348. In 1555, Siena surrendered to Spain during the Italian War of 1551-59, marking the end of the independent republic, and it would later become a part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany before Italian unification in 1860. In 2012, Siena had a population of 52,774 people.